Quotes by Philosophers

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates

God Best Good Our General Blessings Knows Prayers Us Should

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

Life Reality Problem Solved Experienced

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

Great Intelligence Small Minds Extraordinary Minds Great Minds Small Concerned Ordinary

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius

Wisdom Goals Action Adjust Steps Reached Obvious Cannot

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates

Knowledge You Nothing True Know Knowing True Knowledge Exists

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Madness Some Also Always Reason

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius Else See No-One Talent Target Hit Hits

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Education You Learning Book Born Examination Finish Read Pass End Die Process Moment Whole

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius

Wealth Poverty Country Something Badly Well Governed Ashamed

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. Anaxagoras

Unseen Glimpse Appearances

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates

Nature Wealth He Content Least Richest Who

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus

Man King Kingdom Blind

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu

War Win First Seek Go While Victorious Then Warriors Defeated

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates

Death Blessings Greatest May Human

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts Feelings Our Darker Shadows Simpler Always

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope Man Reality Worst Evils Prolongs Because

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato

Knowledge Ignorance Medium Between Opinion

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates

Knowledge You Nothing True Know True Knowledge Meaning Meaning Of